Call the commissioner ‘troglodyte’ if you want

Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson has gotten considerable feedback since he started pushing for the state to allow Texans to buy Confederate flag license plates.

Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson

Not all of it is favorable.

He’s been called a “white supremacist,” a “racist” and a “bigot,” he told the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles board on Thursday.

None of those disparaging terms fit the blunt-talking former state senator and ex-Marine.

But he does not reject all the slurs aimed at him.

“My fondest is ‘troglodyte.’ I think I’m going to adopt it for future use because it’s got a nice ring to it,” Patterson said. “I kind of like that one.”

Makes you wonder if the land commissioner checked out the dictionary, which defines troglodyte as an unsophisticated recluse, such as a prehistoric cave dweller, or a person of degraded, primitive, or brutal character.